时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

  Donny在北京学汉语,他的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教他。今天是琼燕要问的:电灯泡。

QY: Happy Friday, Donny! 你今天晚上有什么计划吗?

Donny: Hmm, not yet. What do you have in mind?

QY: Let's go salsa!! 我今晚要跟两个朋友去跳salsa, 可他们俩是一对,我可真不想夹在中间,当大电灯泡--very bright light bulb!

Donny: I see. You don't want to be the third wheel.

QY: The third wheel?

Donny: Yep! Wheel is spelled w-h-e-e-l. The third wheel, 第三个轮子, it's a very colloquial 1 way of saying a third person joining a couple in a social context 2.

QY: 没错!我就是不想当 the third wheel!

Donny: Exactly, you wouldn't want to bother any love birds, right?

QY: Wait! Love birds? 爱的鸟儿?

Donny:Yep! In English, we often use the word love birds to refer to a couple who are openly affectionate, especially in public. 就是大庭广众之下卿卿我我。你不想打扰这对love birds吧?

QY: 可不是吗!不过这两个人很配!They are a great match!

Donny: Oh that's nice! You can also say, they are a match made in heaven.

QY: A match made in heaven? 那不就是中文里说的天生一对嘛!

Donny: There you go! Since you don't want to be the third wheel, I will go with you! But first, let's see what you learned 3 today!

QY: 第一:电灯泡叫做:the third wheel;

第二,如胶似漆的情侣 ,可以说 love birds;

第三,"天生一对"是,a match made in heaven.



1 colloquial
adj.口语的,会话的
  • It's hard to understand the colloquial idioms of a foreign language.外语里的口头习语很难懂。
  • They have little acquaintance with colloquial English. 他们对英语会话几乎一窍不通。
2 context
n.背景,环境,上下文,语境
  • You can always tell the meaning of a word from its context.你常可以从上下文中猜出词义来。
  • This sentence does not seem to connect with the context.这个句子似乎与上下文脱节。
3 learned
adj.有学问的,博学的;learn的过去式和过去分词
  • He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
  • In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里,他被视为有学问的人。
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acidic amino acid
air pollution monitoring
automatic identification method
Bacillus tuber
balsamum capivi
basic diameter method
beryllioses
blowter
bone armor
bryozoatum
bscp
cameltoeing
Castlereagh
celosia cristatas
chloral-iodine
choroid plexuss
chromosome conjugation
conservation of motion
corbon
Corydalis kingii
counter blade
coupling element
credit mobiler
cross flow rate
CrystalDiskMark
death caps
diplophase
dishabilitated
Dixon Hill
efficient market hypothesis (emh)
electromagnetic bomb
existing loan
exponential family of full rank
fernans
front-liner
fruitcake
galvanized iron wire
genus cyrtomiums
genus pongoes
Guararapes
handlest
harakiri
harington chart
high nickel
horizontal split of rail head
impurity distribution
interrenalopathy
Kansonge
Kobresia macroprophylla
labeling content
Lanjan
lunch special
maksymiuks
mega-moles
megathermal period
milioliform
monger
mouth mucous membrane
n. sublingualis
night watchman
normal age-class distribution
operation notice
Outardes Quatre, Rés.
pascendi
Perkinsville
planned commodity
platycrepis yangi
poultry physiology
premature drying-out
procurement of credit
radix arcus vertebr?
santillan de la vega
seat ring
SFTA
shipyards
single operator direct current arc generator
singular tangent plane
skeleton suits
spsosssts-s
stand in sb.'s light
stationary anchorage
stromlo
third critical speed
trirhombohedral
trizygold development
truly fucked
twinned dendrite
uglified
ultrametric
unbright
underglaze blue jar with sanskritdesgn
unzoned
Van Buren Point
variation of the poles
vernier time signal
volume hologram
vomit nut
washer faced nut
yuge
yupanqui